Moses, the man of God, once sang a song to the congregation of Israel. It was a song of beauty and strength, reminding his people of the dependable nature of God and warning them of the danger of corruption and idolatry. He urged them to return to the paths of righteousness, which are the ways of peace.

It is a song which should be studied and pondered, for it was sung by one who understood God and recognized His changeless, pure, and dependable nature. "Ascribe ye greatness unto our God," he sang. "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgement: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he" (Deut. 32:3,4).

The God of truth is dependable. We can absolutely rely on Truth. There is no if or but about Truth, God. "His work is perfect." We are absolutely dependent on Truth because Truth is entirely dependable. Sometimes we are led to believe that we live in a period which is basically different and remote from days gone by, from the age, for instance, of Moses and the prophets. But world conditions to day are not fundamentally unlike the times when Moses sang his song to Israel and when the prophets of God urged the people to forsake idolatry and to renew their spiritual understanding. The necessity still exists to discard false trusts and return to the worship of the God of truth, whose government, through His unerring intelligence, is seen to control all events.

Christian Science speaks to us of the God of truth, divine good, dependable, immutable, and eternal. It informs us of the nature of "Christ," which Mary Baker Eddy defines in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 583) as, "The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error." The Christ is our Rock, our firm foundation in truth. Its manifestation is seen in man's consistent goodness and in every progressive spiritual experience.

We learn in Christian Science that man is inseparable from the Christ and thus enjoys the manifestations of good in their measureless meanings. We must turn from materialism to find the Christ; there is no other way. There is no short cut to the kingdom of heaven. Ordered steps of spiritual progress are necessary to reach this goal; and these steps are provided through the teachings of Christian Science.

We do not find God when in the pursuit of mere material wealth, in the struggle for place and power, in the wrangle of theological argument, or in the changeful scenes of human circumstance. We find God in the quiet of meekness, in the exercise of spiritual love, in the peace and poise of Soul, and in the energies of Spirit. We find Him when the material senses are stilled by spiritual desires and when we long for a knowledge of Truth and hunger and thirst after righteousness. It is then that we find God and experience consistent good.

It was a yearning desire to know God that compelled Job to declare (23:3), "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" When assailed by disease and dearth, when confused by the changing scenes of human existence, Job cried and his cry was heard. The divine law of restoration gave him health and abundant blessings. He proved the God of truth to be consistent good, and he found man manifest as God's likeness.

Mrs. Eddy points out again and again the changeless nature of Truth, and she reminds us of the necessity of drawing from the fount of divine Love if we would enjoy the consistency of good in our human experience. She says in the Preface to her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. ix), "To preserve a long course of years still and uniform, amid the uniform darkness of storm and cloud and tempest, requires strength from above,—deep draughts from the fount of divine Love."

If we would retain "a long course of years still and uniform" we must understand the God who is Love and Love's changeless care of the whole creation. Perfect cause is expressed in perfect effect. If our experience has seemed ragged and broken, if our work has not been rounded off and finished and has not led us forth to new and progresive experience, then we must examine our knowledge of God and see how much we understand of the consistency of Truth and Love.

The old theological view of a God whose smile brought prosperity and whose frown spelled disaster is not the God of an enlightened people. God is divine Principle, Love, changeless, perfect, and eternal. We can understand God sufficiently now at this present moment to prove that His consistency of good is reflected in man's good and consistent experience.

The action of Truth known by proof, and Christian Science shows us how, through prayer, to prove God's goodness and consistency. Those who have found God to be changeless good are proving in their lives the goodness of God by means of active and uninterrupted cycles of health and prosperity. They find no cause in changeless good for broken relationships, for sporadic events, or for the decline of business prosperity. The vicious circle of inflation is eclipsed by the knowledge of Mind's equilibrium, keeping supply and demand in perfect adjustment under the laws of God and thus assuming a well-balanced economy.

Christian Science is not a mushroom growth or a sluggish and variable movement. It presents steady and consistent unfoldment of spiritual ideas because its adherents worship the God of consistent truth, the God of spiritual life, the God of invariable love. Those who practice Christian Science sincerely find their lives molded in the consistency of good, and they are blessed with continuing health and uninterrupted happiness.

Robert Ellis Key